The barbarians are through the gates. If you ignore this controversy as too vulgar to care about, you're giving them aid!"

I haven't bothered to read the whole article since I have the uncanny knack for correctly foreseeing what a person is bound to say next, based entirely on what that same person has just uttered, and I foresee that the issue at hand is the correct spelling of "civiliation" - the Brit has written it with an "s," but a Yank will write it with a "z."

In short, "civilisation" will fall, but "civilization" will fill in the missing letter with a "z" and fulfill the old British role! If you do read on ahead out of a severe lack of trust in me and my word and thereby get a different message, then you will know that you are being punished by God. Don't take that risk!

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About Me

I am a professor at Ewha Womans University, where I teach composition, research writing, and cultural issues, including the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history.
My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism.
I also work as one-half of a translating team with my wife, and our most significant translation is Yi Kwang-su's novel The Soil, which was funded by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested.
I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries.
Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."